30th March 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Ofcom confirms continued cellco dominance But operators still face significant challenges

Comms: Networks

• BT opens IT helpdesk for home users Got a problem? That's £25
• BT Retail to increase call charges It might only be a halfpenny, but...
• IPTV set for £1bn future But there are buts...
• Power cut hits Plusnet Site down
• Thus integration going to plan Which is nice
• Top bean counter to quit C&W So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye...

Comms: Wireless

• GNER inter city trains to get Wi-Fi by August Arriving nine months ahead of schedule

Hardware

• SMBs eye up big boys' storage Conflicting needs

Hardware: Servers

• IBM offers Sun-only price break on middleware Have UltraSPARC T1, will discount

Information: Databases

• ParACCEL up and running The new boy on the data warehouse appliance block

Management

• Techscape: what in the world is going on? Opinion The state of tech

Management: Public Sector

• First phase of public service transformation underway Plans for 'radical change' laid out till 2011
• UK.gov html all over the place Many sites not W3C compliant, to boot

Music and Media

• Another delay for .xxx domain US concerns quash approval hopes
• Directive to switch off hate TV in Europe New rules for audio-visual content
• ID cards sorta compulsory It's called a compromise
• Judge quashes MS bid to subpoena Oracle and Sun Refuses to annoy the EC
• Tories promise to ditch ID Cards A liberal conundrum?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD re-schedules dual-core Turion 64 debut? Back a month to join Socket AM2 Athlons, mole suggests
• AMD readies Opteron 2xx, 8xx speed bump Last Socket 940 fling before Socket F debuts?

News: Consoles

• Nintendo Revolution chip specs leak CPU, GPU clocked 50 per cent higher than GameCubes, apparently

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Navman intros 'navigation-by-pictures' GPS kit Hardware gets 'serious' styling

News: Media players

• Dutch offered Harry Potter 4 pay-to-own download Windows DRM leaves iPod owners out in the cold

News: Phones

• O2 confirms XDA IQ smart phone Launch imminent
• O2 to offer Palm Treo 650 smart phones Exclusive Smart-phone maker wins second big European carrier

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Asbo total hits 7,356 You know when you've been asboed
• Blue Peter ID cards no joke £900 eBay bid bursts the dam
• Chinese invade Antarctica 'I name this island...'
• Drunk driver fingers Shania Twain Telepathic mind control defence
• Rural BOFHs face FBI threat menace It's in the registry, stupid
• SKY TV crashes in NZ and Oz What's that Skippy? They've lost the signal on the Optus B1 Satellite?

R&R: Opinion

• Of Infocard: Who keeps an eye on the guardians? Why not PGP keysigning?
• Reports of death of MS Passport exaggerated Alive, Alive - ho!

Reviews: GPS

• Navicore Personal 2006/1 smart phone GPS Review Upgrade time?

Science

• Japanese tune into quasar encryption Randomness makes for secure comms
• NASA probes underwater operations Called NEEMO, geddit?

Security

• The man behind OSSTMM Federico Biancuzzi sits down with open source manual creator Pete Herzog
• Trojan row over spouse monitoring software FlexiSPY
• VXers add rootkit tech to MyDoom and Bagle Stealth code goes mainstream

Security: Anti-Virus

• Alcatel signs up to MS dewormer tech It's NAP time

Security: Enterprise Security

• Packet-sniffing techie uncovers spousal infidelity Warning: technology can end your relationship

Security: ID

• Minister pledges no complete DNA database Population spared fingerprinting
• Nokia staff jacked by Ernst & Young laptop loss Exclusive Sun, Cisco, IBM and BP welcome the Finns

Security: Spam

• Joe-job spammers shift tactics to evade filters Ricochet

Software: Operating Systems

• MS, EC trade slaps on way into anti-trust hearing Brad Smith arrives mob-handed
• Red Hat feels open source certification vibe Getting ahead of itself